Hajime…. Thanks to goodness knows what, I’m running late. This is both good, and bad, like most things human. We do tend to try to strip it down to bare bones when possible; today’s post will, no doubt, require us to do so rather ruthlessly, if we hope to find our way to any sort of conclusive resolution. Of course, that also implies we actually know what we’re looking for, or where we’re going, neither of which approaches the truth of Reality in any portion. Go figure that one, eh?

There. That should make it clear you’ll get nothing rational out of me today. That happens to me consistently, I’m afraid, though you wouldn’t know it to watch me perform my antics. I’ve now had an officially long time to practice making it look normal, and, much as the effort costs, it seems worth it to keep those around me from worrying, or, for that matter, from bursting into flames when I look at them. Always a bonus out in public to avoid being noticed for such happenings. I can assure you, I don’t miss the drama….

Okay, that’s all you get today. I’m clean out of fresh ideas, at least for now, so, I’ll bite the bullet, and get this done, so I can say I did without lying about it. I do hate to have to lie, about anything; for us humans the facility comes too easily. I prefer to try to meet Reality on its own terms, which won’t work if we don’t use the rules. Another go figure, but, hey, we’re used to that. I’m going to stop tormenting all of us now, and use this very ruthless technique to get us down the page to where we need to be…. Watch closely, or you’ll miss it….

Shall we pearl?….

“Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.”

~~ Diamond Sutra ~~

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Today I feel like some classical music. I also want to hear the guitar, so, what better way than to hear over two hours of some of the finest classical guitar ever played, by the acknowledged master of the genre, Andres Segovia…. I hope you enjoy it; it will be hard not to do so, since its probably some of the best music ever created by humans… Abondanza!….

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November Dreams of Spring

Crass and cold, the beggar finds me swollen, so frail and fat
with painful stepping motions, running, like a Republicrat.
Building with straw and spittle, should artists come aground,
we all pay heavily, a billion for a bloody pound.

Too desperate, too ashamed to play such a part
We ask for belief, and sweet liberty, dressing up so smart.
It falls between the simple cracks, always in a hurry
To find a shrunken ego, ashen, swift, and full of worry.

Never there was a more penitent group, such a sterling way
To fast in luxury, making sure the guilty enter, but do not stay.
Forgotten gods can find their diffident suitors tonight
With dream-fitted convention, and a natural sense of delight.

For all the silken babies cried, to see the broken dreams of power
forgiven moments of certitude serve, filling up the maiden’s bower.
All the patient, loving veterans of ancient foreign time,
give up their first impressions, dying, dying for a rhyme.

~~ gigoid ~~

9/19/2012

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Naked Pearls

Warning: thinking caps required….

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“I certainly wasn’t happy.
Happiness has to do with reason,
and only reason earns it.
What I was given was the thing you can’t earn,
and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time;
I mean joy.”

~~ Ursula K. LeGuin ~~

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“If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs
that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head. -“

~~ Pooh, in Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne ~~

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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness
is in fact for most men at all times
the secret motive of all they do,
and of all they are willing to endure.”

~~ Dean William R. Inge ~~

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“There is, nevertheless, a certain respect
and a general duty of humanity that ties us,
not only to beasts that have life and sense,
but even to trees and plants.”

~~ Michael de Montaigne, Essays, Book ii, Chap. xi, Of Cruelty ~~

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“Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old;
seek what they sought.”

~~ Matsuo Basho ~~

“Good taste is always an asset.”

~~ Rudy Bakalov ~~

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“Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.”

~~ Steven Stills ~~

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“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

~~J.K. Rowling, The Man with Two Faces, ~~
~~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 1997 ~~
~~ spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore ~~

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“Aw Mom, you act like I’m not even wearing a bungee cord!”

~~ Calvin ~~

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Despite some rather spirited competition from the cat, I got it done. I’m going to cut my losses at this point, since, by posting, I win. Of course, it’s only myself I beat, but, hey, gotta take the kudos where you find ’em, or, you might not get ’em at all. I will, as consistently threatened, be back to do this again tomorrow, I imagine…. Odds are running even right now, but, they’ll improve; bet on it. See ya…..

Y’all take care out there,
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
and everyone else, too…

When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.

2 thoughts on “Up to some very old tricks….”

SMiLes..
i’D rather move
than talk but hey…
talk has its use in rest…
and.. both.. A SMiLe noW
and A WiNk IS A Dance
howEver.. usuAlly those are
the only two non-verbal expresSioNs
i for one use in SonG and or DancE or and oNline too..
one day i’ll take the time and effort to use those fancy pants EmoTiCons..
for addiTioNal
FeeLinG
as tHeRE
iS no ignoRinG
FeeLinG hehe.. as
even Presidential Debates
clearly clEarly sHoW in heatEd/
FroZen.. EmoTioNS too.. STiLL noW..;)

“Arouse the mind without
resting it on anything.”

~~ Diamond Sutra ~~

And this really pisses me off..
in relative terms @lEast.. heHE..
read a new book about the hiStory
and ongoing so-called epidemic of ADHD at B and N..
in the U.S.. wHere up to 15 percent of the population
is diagnosed with a Disorder Label named this..
ha!.. that’s what
happens
when
humans
stagnate
in the essential
paRt of MoVinG
CoNnecTinG and CreaTing
and iN fAct dry up those human
intelligences and end up fidgeting
in their seats from slow torture eight
hours a day behind a desk.. and then
some more hours behind a fast moving
video game.. with no place to move and
burn off stress hormones too.. oh.. the
common sense.. oh.. the common
MoVinG.. coNneCTinG
CreATiVity.. changed
into a
pill
for FucKinG
Bucks and folks
wonder why so
many kids get home
schooLed these days..
hey.. at least you study
while moving in the back
yard for those who don’t
forget or remember how to
move.. connect.. and create
in the first and last place of NoW..
even in a Garden of Eden iN a real
Heaven noW of LEarning more than
STandard IQ measures of quiet hands please..
don’t fidget Johnny or Sue.. sTaY Still in the pews of
church and it always makes me smile when i iNspiRre
the ‘other kids’ to dance in the pews and aisles of Super
Walmart School and
church
liFe
iN a matrix
of FucKinG SiTTinG
STiLL with data download
and becoming one with computer
programs instead of Mother Nature
Essential and True as unadulterated God
from Modern Cultures impriSoNinG Free iN Pills..:)

“I certainly wasn’t happy.
Happiness has to do with reason,
and only reason earns it.
What I was given was the thing you can’t earn,
and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time;
I mean joy.”

~~ Ursula K. LeGuin ~~

The trUth is some
folks never experience
Joy and cannot even tale
yA what iT meanS in words
of Poetry more than
sMiLes
or even
SMiLes
that say Joy
with no words aT all..:)

“If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs
that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head. -“

~~ Pooh, in Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne ~~

Yeah.. the road down could be harder
than the road up.. particularly
for Bed Pan
Handles
of Trump
stuff in Nursing
Homes totAlly
womaned by
an Hispanic/
Muslim..
crew of
caregivers..
alWays a reminder
that one day one may
rely on the current Walmart
Greeter for eventual survival..;)

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness
is in fact for most men at all times
the secret motive of all they do,
and of all they are willing to endure.”

~~ Dean William R. Inge ~~

sMiLes.. most all of the really
big achievements of males
were done
in a
country
of lonely
heARts
Band
Aid
places..:)

“There is, nevertheless, a certain respect
and a general duty of humanity that ties us,
not only to beasts that have life and sense,
but even to trees and plants.”

~~ Michael de Montaigne, Essays, Book ii, Chap. xi, Of Cruelty ~~

NDD..
Nature Deficit Disorder
A REAL DISEASE THAT
NO Doctor FucKinG DiagNoses
that could mean the survival or
death
of the
entire human
race.. oh God the
comMon seNse oF God
As Nature all iNterrElatinG
interconNecTinG lean on
mE aLL for support please..;)

“Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old;
seek what they sought.”

~~ Matsuo Basho ~~

Basically when the ones
who come after stay
stuck in the foot
steps
bEhind..
obviouSly they
sTill have tHeir steps
soMewHeRE thE liGht doN’t SHiNey..;)

“Good taste is always an asset.”

~~ Rudy Bakalov ~~

Unless one
IS A Bug..
or Dinner
for a Gator..;)

“Fear is the lock and
laughter the key to your heart.”

~~ Steven Stills ~~

i have a secret..
hehe.. and it miGht
sound mad but it’s
actuAlly SupeRCool FuN..
whenever one practices a TrUE
WiLL in aliGnment wiTh tHeiR TrUtH and LiGht
that harms no one else.. further than consuming
the food and drink of life.. never taKing more than GiVinG
they are rewarded by the Bigger
than UniVerse.. ‘iNVisible’
way.. by WiNks
and Laughs
oF siGns that
have no causal connections
aT aLL.. otHer than whatever the
individual finds sacred and holy
in liFe.. but of course if they find
nOthing sacred and holy
in life..
neither
Signs
or God
exists to many
of these folks aT aLL..
it works for me and sure
tHeRe is just another ADHD
liKe label to say it’s just my
ImAGinAtiOn.. no shit Sherlock
Docs what the FucK do yA thiNk
iMAGinAtioN iS otHeR than what noW
you caN’t alWays empiricAlly meaSure
and repeat.. as GoD WiNks and Laughs
also kNown and FeLt aS Synchronicity
evade those who enter into a miND
and BoDy Way of Mechanical
Robot Ways/CoGniTioN..
oF
BeinG
iN Standard
IQ ways2.. DreAM
tiMe haS alWays been
as reaL as any otHeR pARt
oF eXistence wheN experienCinG liFe..
luCidLY aS liGht Can cOme aGaIN for FReED..;)

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

~~J.K. Rowling, The Man with Two Faces, ~~
~~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 1997 ~~
~~ spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore ~~

As the Great Band Styx
SAid iN ‘Lord of the Rings’..
iT iS EsSence oF Hope/BeliEf
FaiTh/PuRE LoVe sAMe noW..
thaT cOUnts Now..
noT thE houSing
oF veHicles anD veSsels
iN mYth/reLigion/etc.. thAt
hOld tHat HoPe..ETc.. isReaL noW..
And sUre.. i’M taKinG Great Liberties
In ParaphraSinG What ‘they’ sAId.. juST
aS i caN.. i WiLL.. i creATe mY reaLiTy As iS..:)